A Japanese woman had her entire scalp torn off her head in an accident with a cotton spinning machine. The woman caught her long hair in the machine, which twists together cotton fibers to make thread, and it ripped her hair and scalp clean off. Pictures published in the British Medical Journal show how the...
A teacher claims to have found the “fountain of youth” thanks to an extreme diet which sees him eat almost nothing but tacos. Michael Kentros, 52, says he looks ten years younger, is 50 pounds lighter and has a better sex life than ever since he began eating 12 homemade tacos a day. The former...
Unseen photographs of John Lennon, which were left in a “junk drawer” for more than 30 years, have been discovered. The collection of 26 negatives, from 1970, were brought to a valuation day at The Beatles Story museum in Liverpool on October 25. The “intimate portraits” were described as “a rare find” by auctioneer Darren...
Publishing magnate S.I. Newhouse Jr. — whose glossy cultural magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair catalogued the lives of the rich and famous — was nearly $300 million in debt when he died, according to new court filings. The late media mogul’s estate documents, filed in Manhattan Surrogate’s Court on Friday, list $114 million in...
The Russian lawyer who set up a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower to dish dirt on Hillary Clinton discussed her talking points with one of the Kremlin’s most powerful officials before the sitdown, a new report said Friday. Natalia Veselnitskaya — who has repeatedly said she was acting on her own —...
WASHINGTON — Monarch butterflies, those delicate symbols of spring and summer, should mostly be in Texas by now, winging their way to Mexico for the winter. But Darlene Burgess keeps seeing colorful clusters of them — and she lives in Canada. “As nice as this is to see, I really wish I wouldn’t see it...
It’s last call for a Long Island winery accused of plying its patrons with so much vino they regularly started brawls and had sex in the neighbors’ bushes. Vineyard 48 in Cutchogue, Long Island, has decided to close its doors after its liquor license was pulled this month. “I think they saw the writing on...
In Europe and the Americas, it seems, one girl’s name rules supreme – and that’s Sophia or Sofia. The two variants of the same name – which means wisdom – are top of the baby name table in nine countries including Italy, Russia and Mexico. In a further 20 countries, it is either second or...
Parisians are super relaxed about drinking wine at midday – but take a photo of the Eiffel Tower after dark and all hell could break loose. It turns out that sharing your own pictures of the iconic structure at night-time is a violation of the artist’s copyright. Take a photo during daytime and no one...
Mars’ sand can walk on water. During summers on Mars, the combination of warm temperatures, deposits of ice and the planet’s thin atmosphere could be causing sand to levitate. Mars can get as hot as 70 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer which melts some of the planet’s ice deposits. But Mars’ atmosphere, which has just...
Picture this, you’re snuggled in bed on a Saturday morning and your partner lets one rip. The last thing you want to do is smell it, but it turns out sniffing farts has secret health benefits. And it’s all to do with a specific gas that is released when you pop off. Hydrogen sulfide, the...
"We just now need to start talking about how the pendulum needs to shift," Hudson said.
American millennials are fed up with gun violence. The vast majority of people ages 18 to 35 in the US believe the country has a major problem with mass shootings and most support laws addressing the issue, according to a new survey of 1,155 number people from millennial-focused apartment listing site Abodo. Some 78 percent...
They had to fight off sharks, thirst and storms — all while struggling for a will to live. Two women stranded at sea for nearly six months spoke about their harrowing experience Friday, two days after they were rescued by the US Navy about 900 miles from the coast of Japan. “I honestly believed we...
The couple were married for 17 years.
CLEMSON, S.C. — The vice president of Clemson University’s student government says an impeachment vote against him reflects racism on campus. Vice President Jeran Stewart is black and was among about a dozen students who sat during the Pledge of Allegiance last month. Stewart told the Anderson Independent-Mail the allegations came right after he sat...
Uber has not had a über good year. In its latest problem, three female engineers have sued the ridesharing platform in San Francisco’s Superior Court for discrimination. They claim Uber’s performance evaluation mechanism, among others, is unfair to women and underrepresented minorities; one woman also alleges a culture that fosters chauvinism—a charge that echoes claims...
This year’s horror movies are doing so well, it’s scary. Frightening flicks such as “Get Out,” “It” and most recently “Happy Death Day” have made $733 million in ticket sales this year, the New York Times and Box Office Mojo reported. That’s the biggest box office year for horror ever, without adjusting for inflation. And...
There was a chapter dedicated to how the couple makes their relationship work long-distance when they're filming.
PAINTSVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky woman who investigators say killed her newborn child has been charged with murder. An Oct. 20 indictment says 34-year-old Amanda Meade caused the baby girl’s Oct. 15 death by cutting the umbilical cord with scissors. Johnson County Deputy Coroner Bill Robinson told news outlets that Meade called 911 between 30...
The director claimed that Weinstein took revenge of his own on the then-couple by ensuring it would be a commercial disappointment.
Opposites attract. Just ask Selena Gomez. On Monday night, Gomez hit up the third annual InStyle Awards in a slinky LBD and a pair of mismatched nude sandals by French designer Jacquemus. The heels looked normal enough from the front. But a side shot revealed a yellow, sphere-shaped heel on one shoe — and a...
Two NYPD cops have been indicted on first-degree rape charges for allegedly having sex with a handcuffed 18-year-old woman inside their police van in Brooklyn, The Post has learned. Officers Eddie Martins and Richard Hall are expected to turn themselves in early next week for arraignment in Brooklyn Supreme Court, sources said. The cops, who...
MONTREAL — Sometimes, situations between players and teams and cities just become entirely untenable, and that doesn’t mean anyone is giving up on anyone. But that’s a sentiment which doesn’t have to be relayed to Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin, who has already established himself as the NHL’s most talented purveyor of the bait-and-switch. He...
Yes, the mayor is running — from the press. Reporters mobbed Mayor de Blasio in Brooklyn on Friday as he made his first public appearance since Thursday’s bombshell pay-to-play testimony by disgraced donor pal Jona Rechnitz. But despite their shouted questions — including this one, “What’s your price, Mr. Mayor?” from a certain local broadsheet...
